Peter Attia· MD
so it was a complete game changer it not only revolutionized the the impact of kidney transplantation which from a public health standpoint is clearly the most impactful organ we transplant you know the the number of patients with end-stage renal disease the number of patients the crown of kidney disease you know from a public health standpoint kidney transplantation is just a fundamental uh important medical therapy but so not only did it make that a reality and make it a preferred alternative to dialysis it also reinvigorated the other solid organ transplant other solid organ transplants as being a reality so you know liver transplantation which is essentially had been on a more or less enforced hiatus through the 60s and 70s heart transplantation similarly lung transplantation as well the the confidence that now that we understood some of the technical and kind of patient related factors that dictated the success of the operation to now also have the promise that those organs would last more than you know 90 days you know reinvigorated those fields completely and you know again you know almost overnight over the course of years you started to see liver transplant programs heart transplant programs lung transplant programs pop up at major medical centers all throughout the country in the 1980s and into the early 1990s so that was really the revolution that occurred because of that drug development